Word: line
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Those limits: "From the Maas" (the Meuse, which flows through northern France, Belgium and The Netherlands) "to the Memel" (or Niemen, now part of the dividing line between German and Russian Poland...
...Housewives had to spend hours daily standing in line for supplies. It was no longer possible to entertain at meals, unless the guests brought their own food. At Berlin's big Kurfurstendamm sidewalk cafes, a few brave souls occasionally sat in the dark with their beer, but most Berliners spent their evenings at home, trying to read by carefully shaded lights...
...Normal standards of what was popular no longer counted, said he; furthermore, one of his aims was to curtail civilian demands. "There must be restrictions directed against wasteful or unnecessary use of resources, restrictions which limit consumption of a long list of articles, the strictest economy all along the line...
Winthrop took the ball to within the ten yard line twice in a fast, exciting last quarter, only to be turned back on the ground and in the air. Finally Lowell, with the time being reckoned in seconds, gained possession of the ball on the six yard line, only to fumble the ball behind the goal line...
Kirkland scored first near the end of the first quarter, when Jerry Hall intercepted a Bunny pass and carried the ball to the one yard line. Earl Foster plunged over for the point but the Deacons failed to convert...